That was pretty much everyone’s reaction when I sent them this site, told them I had signed up for Startup Weekend NYC and agreed to be a blogger. You would think that they might check out the Startup Weekend Home site, but even that doesn’t make it crystal clear, and some people (like my parents and even some of the co-workers) need crystal clarity. So I started sending people to Penelope Trunk’s blog posting about it.
She explains that the first Startup Weekend “began on a Friday, when 70 people showed up above a bike shop in Boulder, CO to vote on their favorite previously submitted business ideas. They decided to create a business that allowed people to take quick polls of their friends’ opinions.” They continued to work throughout the weekend to build their fantastic company - Vosnap - “a social quick voting tool that reduces group think and time wasted on decision-making by giving you the ability to receive a quick vote from a group of friends on any decision.”
Vosnap hasn’t officially launched yet, but the buzz was so great that people all over the world have started planning Startup Weekend’s (Toronto, Houston, West Lafayette, Boston, DC, Hamburg Germany and New York) so that they can spend the weekend building something great. I wasn’t in Boulder, and this will be my first Startup Weekend, so this blog will be the dirty details on how it comes together and what happens during this action packed weekend in the Big Apple.
- Karen
3 responses so far ↓
1 mpstaton // Jul 29, 2007 at 10:26 pm
every day in SF is startup weekend….. vosnap sounds like a great idea.
2 Lindsay Lohan // Jul 30, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I’m totally in. It’s been almost a week since I stayed up for three days straight with a bunch of rich guys all locked in a room.
Unless I have court or jail - I’ll be there.
Fake LL
(the post is a joke, but I’m seriously totally in)
3 Steve Poland // Sep 4, 2007 at 7:37 am
Is this still going on? If so, where will it be? And I’d suggest contacting Fred Wilson, Allen Stern (CenterNetworks), etc, hopefully for some plugs to build awareness (doesn’t appear to be many people signed up).
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